Original title: The total number is over 700! Why are the “four new” enterprises in the West Coast New Area of Qingdao?
Recently, the world's first 5G+ intelligent manufacturing fully connected industrial park, Haier Sino-German Smart Park, was officially completed and operated. Through AI+5G technology support, the smart park not only realizes full-process information self-sensing, all-factor event self-decision-making, and full-cycle scenario self-iteration, but also solves application pain points in industrial park quality inspection, park security, production management, etc., and further empowers intelligent manufacturing.
The Haier Sino-German Smart Park is a vivid microcosm of the new economic development of Qingdao's West Coast New Area. From AI technology to 5G applications, from big data to cloud computing... the “Four New Economies”, which include new technologies, new industries, new business formats, and new models, are becoming the city's new growth poles. Data shows that in 2020, the “four new” economies in the West Coast New Area of Qingdao added 114.9 billion yuan in value, a growth rate of 6.8%, accounting for 32% of the region's GDP; annual investment accounted for 50.6% of the total social investment, an increase of 16.6% over the previous year.
In the midst of the booming development of the new economy, why did the West Coast New Area of Qingdao take the lead? The reason for this is inseparable from the guarantee of many important elements such as policies, innovation, talent, and capital.
In 2020, the West Coast New Area of Qingdao set up a leading group for the promotion of new economic development, set up a special new economic development promotion center for institutions directly under the government, issued the “Implementation Opinions on Promoting the High-Quality Development of the New Economy”, using the strength of the region to plan and promote major work related to the new economic development, making every effort to build a “rainforest” for the new economy with market logic and capital power.
As the industrial ecosystem gradually becomes a climate, leading companies compete to lay out their positions. In January of this year, the transfer technology national headquarters project settled in the West Coast New Area of Qingdao, with a total investment of 1.5 billion yuan to build the country's largest second-hand service and testing center in the new area; in April, the headquarters project of Shenzhen Extreme Vision Technology Co., Ltd. signed a contract to build and operate the “Smart Vision AI Developer Platform” in the new area, and will also host a computer vision youth developer competition in the new district every year; in August, BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. issued an announcement announcing that it will invest in the world's largest mobile display module single factory in the new district...
In just a few years, a large number of enterprises representing the new economy signed contracts to enter the West Coast New Area of Qingdao. Currently, the new district has set up a bank of key new economy projects, storing 190 new economy projects, with a total investment of 200 billion yuan.
“Policy support has provided fertile ground for the development of industries in the new economy, and the continuous optimization of the business environment has nurtured the new economic ecology like rain and dew.” Song Qian, director of the Qingdao West Coast New Area New Economic Development Promotion Center, said, “The new district is also actively initiating research work on new economic development, setting up a think tank for new economic development, building a new economic development think tank platform, bringing together experts and scholars in new economic fields to provide intellectual support for the new economic development.”
The new economy has the characteristics of convergence and sharing, cross-border integration, rapid iteration, and rapid growth. Based on resource endowments, the industrial base, and judgment on future development directions, the West Coast New Area of Qingdao focuses on the fields of industrial Internet, e-commerce, online services, new financial services, etc., continuously expanding new application scenarios and empowering industrial development.
At iFLYTEK's Future Port, the joint innovation center for large enterprises and the incubation service platform for small and medium-sized enterprises are competing vigorously. 65 enterprise application scenarios, including voiceprint diagnosis and intelligent predictive maintenance, are being reflected in reality. In the “Industry 4.0” intelligent factory of Double Star Tire, various intelligent robots skillfully perform operations such as rubber mixing, application, and molding, and intelligent AGV cars that shuttle through Yan are continuously transporting materials; walking into the bonded logistics center, Weipinhui Qingdao Central Warehouse, where rows of international brand shelves are waiting to be delivered to consumers, one-stop “global trading” has become commonplace; in the giant At the live broadcast base, 100 anchors took turns to “bring goods”, and more than 30,000 brand products went all over the country from here...
“It is these application scenarios that have promoted the deep integration of the new economy with the real economy.” Song Qian said that at present, the new district has opened a total of 369 scenarios, including 250 “industrial empowerment” scenarios and 44 “future city” scenarios.
The West Coast New Area of Qingdao has also made great efforts in scientific and technological innovation and talent development in order to create a globally influential gathering area for new economic elements, an incubation area for business formats, a scene cultivation zone, and an ecological innovation zone.
In recent years, the West Coast New Area of Qingdao has signed new contracts to attract 13 colleges and universities, including the Harbin Engineering University's Qingdao Innovation and Development Base, and set up science and technology innovation committees to further strengthen the support for scientific and technological innovation elements. Eight innovation platforms, including the Qingdao Huada Institute of Genetic Research and the Qingdao Aeronautical Technology Research Institute, have been recognized as new R&D institutions at the provincial level. An international talent community and a “Special Talent Zone” in Lingshan Bay have been set up one after another, and policies such as the “Catalogue of Key Talent Needs in the West Coast New Area of Qingdao” and “Trial Measures for Employers to Self-recommend High-Level Talents” have been released one after another, adding 27,000 new talents, providing strong talent support for the growth of industries in the new economy. In addition, the new district is also actively introducing venture capital investment institutions, developing financial service platforms, promoting the establishment of new economic funds for the development of new economy industries, and alleviating the problems of difficult, expensive, and complicated financing for enterprises.
The multi-factor guarantee has achieved outstanding results. In the West Coast New Area of Qingdao, the “four new” enterprises have not only “grown” like sprouting, but have also “strengthened” like bamboo. According to information, there are currently 702 “four new” enterprises in the new zone, including 374 high-tech enterprises, 106 strategic start-ups, and 222 service enterprises.